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& I w If w CM IP V-iA. ' , , : , : ... .... . HZ5 G. QOYLIM, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, SI a Year. i S T SERIES VOL II. NO. 43. Wadesboro, N. C Thursday, .lay 5, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 906 sr.t Improvement bris a Welcome "Change in I Her Condition i " " " - - ?ment by a North Carolina Woman. 'early all my life I have had one cold j another and the trouble seemed like ;e from UKXERAL, ALFRED DOCKERY. were dis- my ears, , and my hearing ,rh -iuthe iiead. There ne affected. I took a nnmber of T of medicine bat I grew worse tn-r- oi bitter. One day I procured a e of Ed'a S jsaparilla and began tg it, and Boot! found it waa doing ;obd. I gained strength and waa t ly benefited t' many ways. I con 3d its nse an j now the bad feeling in head is gone, and the earache with ;h l suffered has disappear-vl. I am .j able to do5 my housework without : -. I shall keep Hood's Sarsaparilla in house as long; as I live." Mhs. T. G. i KB, Dallas, North Carolina. WJ9' Sarsa OQ S parilla ' e best -In fact tlie One True Blood Purifier. i , , are the favorite family cathartic. Price 25c. od's Pills Bennett, Crawford D. Jno.T. Bennktt. Bennett nnett &. Bennett Attrneys-at-Law, de8boro, - - N., C. r'ist room on the right In the court house, ill practice fn all the courts of the State. w-cial attention given to the examination investigation of Titles to Real Estate, . -ving Deeds and other instruments, Col- :.m of Claims, the Managing of Estates G .ardiana, Administrators and Execu . and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. 'ill attend the courts of Stanly and Mont iery counties. - rompt attention given to all business in : ted to them. - vington & Redwine, Monroe, N. C. T. L. Caudle, Wadesboro, N. C. 'ovington, Redwine & Caudle, OT03b&YS - AT - LAW, j WADKSBOIIO, N. C. Practice in all the Slate, and .-United i'.es Courts. Special attention will be given to exami tionand investigation-! titles to Real tate. the drafting of deeds, mortgages;- i a other legal instruments; the collect f i of claims, and mangementof estates for f lardians, Administrators, and Executors. ! Commercial, Railroad, Corporation and surance Law. " Continuous and painstaking attention ; 11 be given to all legal business. Office in the Smith building. V.A.INGRAM,M.D. 1 . ; SURGEON, ,'ADESBORO, - - - N. 0. ailroad calls by wire promptly attended .fice opposite .National Hotel. ,V. F. GRAY, J). 1). S., -(Office in Smith & L anlap Building. Wadesboro, North Carolina. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. tf'Oli LOW: Rates West,! TEXAS, MEXICO, CAL IFOBNIA, ALASKA, or any other point, with FREE MAPS, write to fcqso D. Busy, District Passenger Agent, Louisville & Nashville ?.? S6 Wall St., ATLANTA, GA. ffml are a source of comfort. They are a 6ource of care. also. If you. care for your child's iictuLJi, acini ior uiustratea ' book os the disorders to which children are subject, and which Frey's Vermifuge tufeu ior 50 years. ui ootue 6y mall for 25 ccnti. E. fc 8. PREY, o Baltimore, Md. 1 A. S. M0RIS0N, DEALER IN r MM . 3 O O - 'Watches, CiockB, Eje-GIasses, - Spec tacles and Jewelry of all kinds re paired on short notice, c Inspected Watcnes for S. A. L. R. II. four years. Fourteea years experience. Can le found iu Caraway's store on Yade etreat v.. SI i 1 52 i v 1 o I r t. Ui i PARKER'S ) HAIR BALSAM ClMuue and beaotitie the halt Promoted a luxuriant ffrowth. i Nsm lalls to EoBtore Giy I uatr VJ lim xobuuui i-oior. Curat scalp diwafea tt hair ialiio lnlerestins Sketch of the Life of - Ureal Office Seeker, Who IVns Also the Progenitor of a Loug Line of Office Seekers. L. H. Webb in Rockingham Rocket. But it was in the field or ""bush," and not on the hustings that General Dock- ery played his ad captandum six horse cut. Here he was in his peculiar way inimitable; might have exclaimed with Robinsoe Crusoe, "from the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Among those who he himself called the "common" people, and of whom in his demgogism he claimed to be one, he was not simply a 'wheelhorse," but a "whole team and a big dog under the wagon." But even here, he sometimes met his match if the following is not entirely apochryphal. I canivc-t vouch for the "correctness of the story as of my own knowledge, and tell it only as it was told to me by a gentle man who was in the legislature with the General and knew him well. It was in that most unfortunate of all Generaf Dockery's political campaigns, when he ran for Governor against the accomplished and elegant Bragg, who gave to him, but not as he would have it, an almost national notoriety. It was an ill-matched fight, and one in which the General could gain nothing in debate from his astute and thoroughly equipped foe, in whose hands he was a sort of gi gantic toy, held up for the public enter tainment; and hence, on the General's part the greater necessity for the exer cise of his own guerilla method of-polit- litical warfare. Alone in his buggy, as was usual with him, the- General was driving along a road in the eastern part of the State when he saw a man plowing in the field near the wayside. Reigning in and stop ping ; his not unwilling horse, he de scended from his buggy and crossed the fence into the field, and, as he approach ed, the plowman stopped his horse. "Good morning," said the General in his blandest tones, but which were yet strong and loud, "I am Alfred Dockery, candidate for Governor of North Caro lina, and I always feel a pleasure in meeting a fa-mer for I am one myself, and can do pretty good work between the plow handles," and suiting the ac tion to the words took hold of the plow and lines and started off across the field, the plowman looking on with a quiet smile upon his face; then seating him selef in the shade of a nearby tree awaited the amateur plowman's return, while he fanned himself with his large straw hat. The day was hot and the ground dry and dusty, and when the General returned both his black coat and ruddy face furnished unmistakable evidence of the trip. The plowman ris ing to meet him with the courtesy, words and air of a gentleman complimented him upon the excellence of his work; whereupon the General commenced his usual harangue about being "bred be tween the plow handles" and being one of the "common people" himself. "Well," said the plowman, "I can hardly claim to be one of the class to which you allude, for in this community we have no caste distinctions, the only line dividing us being that which is drawn between virtue and vice; and we desire no other, which will engender en vies, jealousies and heart burnings be tween neighbors; besides, General, I am a Jeffersonian Democrat and, a sincere admirer of Mr. Bragg, -with whom I have the honor of an intimate acquaintance, and although I have .never heard .him say so, I have no doubt Mr. Bragg thinks as well of one good man as another, and no better or worse of a man who makes an honest living either by daily manual labor or with his brains;" to which the General replied: "Well I must be jogg ing on,good morning," and climbing the fence he resumed his seat in his buggy and his onward way, if not with a droop ing banner with one at least around whose spear point there was entwined no "victorious wreath." It was the trump card in General Dockery s political game to' take the triCK Dy posing as a " man ot the peo ple," or one of the "common people," but there was in this blundering play, in view of his hereditary politics and some of his individual characteristics such logical fallacy as to make him, in the eyes of intelligent and discerning men, but little" more than a mountebank or charlatan, an awkward dissembler, an ungainly figure. - His father before him was a federalist and the General naturally followed in his footsteps, and every intelligent read er of the history ' of American politics knows that the Federalist party was the party of the Aristocrats, led by John Adams, of Massachusetts, a notorious aristocrat, while Thomas Jefferson, the father of the Democratic party, repre sented not the ''common people" but all the people of the country, as does de mocracy. A man of the people indeed! In the "true inwardness" of his heart General Dockery was a proud man, an aristocrat of the first waer, who held himself so cially and otherwise, as of finer clay than his fellow-men, and only stooped to them in his blundering demagogism, with a patronizing air that in itself was an insult to the people whom he called common. He regarded every one of his political followers as his personal prop erty, and if he had possessed the power I believe would have punished with no relenting spirit every withdrawal from his ranks, and his descendants to this day are amenable to the same charge. A man of the people! A commoner! ! Why this unremitting persistence in office seeking, coupled with his peculiar methods and dictatorial "airs, furcish ir refragible proof of his self esteem, and his opinion that he was superior to the "common" people as he called them Arguing from the analogies of the sub ject, if General Dockery were living and in politics today, as are his descendants, Outrageous Assnlt on a white Woman by a Xegro in Bruns wick County The Perpetra tor Captured. Southport, N. C, April 27. Officer White and assists it reached heie last evening at 11 o'clock from Shallotte, with the nero rapist, John Brooks, in custody. He was placed securely in the county jail, from which he had been released only a month, after acmfinement for at tempting the same deed last winter. His victim this time is Mrs. M. A. Cheers, a widow woman of Shallotte township, who lives alone, per nearest neighbor being a half mile away. On the witness stand Mrs. Cheers stated that after mid night Monday moiniDg last) ;; some one. aroused her, demanding an entrance. Upon her refusal to admit him, the scoun drel forced his way, telling her if she rais ed a cry he would kill her. She was hopelessly at his mercy and the villain accomplished hie purpose; then threaten ing to kill her if she divulged the deed, he lelt her premises. She went to her neighbor's, Mr. F. M. White, and sought aid. Soon tour men had tracked the man she described as the perpetrator to his home. His arrest was not made then, and he made his escape, but an angry mob was in hot pursuit all day, and that night an officer arrested him, and brought him here, after a pre liminary trial, at which there was much excitement, but no violence was shown. he would have to pose as a "nigger" to make himself a common man and catch their votes. But his mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of those who, while they essay the difficult task of imitating him and his methods, even to the pos ing, do it so freely as to excite the 'pity even of their political foes. Nothing but burnt cork and a session at school with "Uncle Remus' will save their bacon. A HORRIBLE CRI7IE. TORPEDOE'S USE IS WAR. The Philppiue Islands. Atlanta Journal. Just now the Phlippincs are a centre of general observation because of the prospect that Spain will lose them as well as Cuba and Porto Rico and be cause a great naval battle in that quarter seems imminent. "The average citizen of this country knows little abouj this group of islands. They lie off the southeastern coast of China and south of Formosa. The Pinlip pine archipelago includes nearly 600 is lands, of which, however, only thirteen are of considerable size. The largest ol these, Luzon, has an area of 40,000 square miles, which is nearly as large as that of Virginia. Mauila, thecapiial, has a large amount of wealth. Its trade in sugar, to bacco and hemp is very large. The sec ond island of the group in size is Min danao, with an area of 37,000 square miles. The total area of the Philippiues is about 150,000 square miles or more than three times the area ot Cuba. The total popula tion is fully 8,000,-00 and is badly mixed. There is as great a variety of religion as of blood. There are Mohammedans, Buddhists, Shintoists and a few Chris tians. Though Spain has possessed these is lands a long time comparatively few Spaniards live there. The natives hate the Spaniards heartily, and in some of the islands the life of a Spaniard i3 not safe. Insurrections have been even more fre quent in the Philippines than in Cuba. Iu fact there has for a century past hardly been a time whem there was not a revolt, in some of the islands. General Weyler was governor of the Philippines just be fore he was sent to Cuba, and it was his treatment of the natives which gave him the name of "butcher." A great majority of the people in the Philippines lo.ig to be rid of the Spanish yoke and their liberation is only a question of time. Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service thev endured during the war. Mr. Geo. ri. Anderson, of Ross ville, York county, Penn.. who saw the hardest kind of service at the front, is n6w frequently troubled with rheuma tism. "1 had a severe attack lately," he says, "and procured a botile of Chamber Iain's Pain Balm. It did so much good that I would like to know what you would charge me for one dozen bottles. Mr. Anderson wanted it both for his own use and to supply it to his friends, aud neighbors, as 5ery family should have a bottle oi it in their home, not onlv lor rheumatism, but lame back, sprains swellings, cuts, bruises and burns, for which ii is unequalled. For sale by Jas A. llardison. Delicate Iustrumenls That Car ry Certain Destruction to the Most Powerful Ships-Tbeir Blows Are Deadly Wonderful Ingenniljr In Perfecting De tails. New York Sun. " The new American Whitehead Torpe do not only has the power to blow up any ship afloat, but its intricate and del-.; i , . :. . i. i under water. The variations from its course are so slight that ' it can be fired from the launching tube with the same confidence in its ability to reach the tar get as when the seacoast artilleryman fires a steel shell from a heavy gun. The torpedo is built of steel in the shape of a porpoise, with a big double-bladed tail. Ready for firing it weighs r,i6o pounds but its weight in water is but a half pound. Its length is 5 metres, (about 16 feet 5 inches,) its greatest diameter 45 centimetres (17.7 inches). It is assem bled in four sections the head, air flask and immersion chamber, after body, and tail all fitted together with sleeve joints and held together by j'oint screws. The walls are made of the finest forged steel, to resist the enormous air pressure. Bronze bulkheads seperate the sections. Near the after end of the air flask is a bulkhead of the small immersion cham ber. The after body is also divided into two compartments, so that in all there are five compartments within the torpe do's steel shell. Compressed air is the motive power. This is contained within the air flask, a hollow forged steel cylinder nearly half as long as the torpedo, slightly tapering at the ends; with dome-shaped heads screwed and soldered in each end. On shipboard this flask is filled by an air compressing engine, and the pressure attained is 1,350 pounds to the square inch. The flask is tested for a pressure of 2,000 pounds. The engine consists of three cylinders radiating out from the propeiiar shait, like a three-leaf clover. The cylinders could be carried in one's overcoat pock et, but they have a- combined power of thirty horse power. HOW THE GUN COTTON IS EXPLODED. Wet gun cotton, weighing 220 pounds is carried in the torpedo's blunt phos- phorbronze war head, double the amount j - -. 1 1 1 . 1 i . - , carrea in me sinan lorpeuo ursi issueu to the navy. The gun cotton is in disks. nto the nose of the torpedo is inserted metal cylinder, reaching back some distance through openings .. in the gun cotton disks. This cylinder, the primer holds a series of small dry gun cotton ylinders. The forward cylinder is pierced to receive the detonating primer of fulminate of mercury, capped with a percusion cap. The war nose screws into the forward end of the primer case. When the torpedo is launched a blow on the war nose will not explode the gun cotton, but as the torpedo runs through the water a little fan on the nose is re- olved like a paper spinning wheel. A nut is screwed through a traveling sleeve by the turning ot a fan until it rests on the firing pin. VV hen the torpedo strikes the firing pin is driven in, detonating the . cap, the fulminate ot mercury, the dry gun cot ton, and then exploding the. 220 pounds 1 wet gun cotton, lnis system ot ex plosion is made necessary by the nature of gun cotton. , This high explosive, one of the most powerful destroyers ever evolved from the chemists' laboratory, is exploded witn dimcuity. were the war head simply loaded with wet gun cotton. the impact of the head against the ship's armor would not explode the gnn trotton, Even dry gun cotton might not explode Gun cotton on shipboard is always kept wet. It is more difficult to explode, but more vioieui m us action, ury gun cot- on is aoout tne only thing that is sure o explode wet gun cotton, and dry gun cotton is exploded by a mercury fulmi nate detonator. 1 he latter is easily ex ploded by a cap and instantly expands to 2,500 times its original volume. The sudden pressure explodes the dry gun cotton, inewar nead is never used in times of peace. Instead a blunter prac tice head of steel is used. It is ballesied by filling it with fresh water. jno government wouia now spend a cent-for a torpedo which could not be depended on to reach the point aimed at. The maximum effectiveness of a torpe do in an attack on a battleship is reach ed wnen tne torpedo strikes the vessel amidships, well below the heavy side armor belt. The explosion drives in the arfnor at its weakest point, explodes the Doners ana nearDy magazines and in sures the sinking of the ship. Struck near the water line, a heavy battle ship (while the havoc wrought would be ter rific) might be able to keep above water lor nours ana ao eitective service in an engagement The "Ting Yuen, one of the batteships of the Chinese fleet at Wei-Hai-Wei, at early dawn on Februa ry 5. 1090. was attacked by the Taoanese torpedo flotilla. One of the six White head torpedoes fired at the Ting Yuen and Lai Yuen struck the former in the stern near the water line. The torpedo tore a big hole in the armor, and, al though the water-tight doors and com partments failed at the critcal moment. the ship sank slowly, and her gunners sank the assailant, killing all of her crew. c the distance gear must be set to fix the point at which the torpedo's engines will stop, the spet d regulator must be set, the lockine dial must be set to fix the dis tance from the ship when the erigineswill start, the rudder index must be set to fix the depth of the initial dive an the depth index must be set to fix the depth at which the torpedo will run. In an attack only the last of these operations might be necessary. In practice the air comprest sor just before launching, for -the mos fineiy made torpedoes cannot be made airtight against the pressure of 1,350 pounds to the square inch. When all the adjustments are made the breech door is closed an a cartridge carrying a few oun ces of powder placed in the firing pistol on top of the breech. The pistol is fired by electricity either from the torpedo room or the conning tower. The slight shock is enough to drive the torpedo out into the water the starting lever being tripped back by the tube projection. When the torpedo strikes the water the water tripper is thrown back &a the en gines are started at full speed. By the aid of the torpedo indicator, an arrange ment of three triangulated arms' on a semi-circular arc, the torpedo is aimed with due allowance for the speed of the ship, the speed of the enemy, the speed of the torpedo and the training of the speed of the torpedo tube. FACTS ABOUT MATAKZAS. When bilous or costive, eat a Cascaret candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, lue, 25c. hildree Who would prescribe only tonics anct bitters for a weak, pony child ? Its muscles and nerves are so thoroughly es- $ hausted that they cannot be jj 'whipped into activity. The ft child needs food ; a blood- i making-, nerve-strengthening- and muscle-building food. . 9 - 1 Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil is all of this, $ and you still have a tonic in the hypophosphites of lime and soda to act with the food, (ft For thin and delicate children there is no remedy superior to it in the world. It means J growth, strength, plumpness and comfort to them. Be sure 1 you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. 2 50c nd $1.00, U druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. It is a City of About 45,000 Peo ple, Aud Iu Commercial Impor tance. Rauks Next to Havana. Baltimore Sun. Mantanzas is a city of about 45,000 in habitants. It is about forty miles from Hayana, with which is connected by a railroad for which reason it is a valuable port for the United States force to hold. The city is situated at the end of a bay. This bay U defended by batteries on both sides of the harbor. On the right of the . harbor are high hills that stretch back to the Yumuri Valley. On one shore wa formerly an ancient fort.but this was replaced recently by earth works and modern guns. More deaths from sta vati in hava oc curred in Matanzas and its immediate surrounding than in any other part of ihe island. Before the last Cuban war it was the principal port for the shipment of sugar from Cuba. In commercial importance it ranks next to Havana. The Spanish considered it one of their most strongly fortified possessions on the island. Its principal buildings are the ca3tle of San Severino, a church, an academy, a hos pital. a theatre and extensive barracks. KEPT AT A FIXED DEPTH. Remarkable alike for the comoletp ness ot its control Qf the movement of the. torpedo and the simplicity of its ac tion is tne mecnanism wnich keeps the torpedo at any fixed depth. In each of the horizontal fans of the torpedo's tail is a rectangular rudder, about two inches wide and three inches long, in its nor mal position nusn with the fin. Obvi ously, if these little rudders swing up the trpedo will be deflected unward -1 - . .. - . 1 and vice versa, meir action being the . 1. ... C 1 . , a name ixa ui mc Horizontal nns on a fish In a torpedo attack upon an armored vessel the officer who directs the attack determines at what distance below the water line of the vessel a torpedo will do tne most damage. tsattleshiDs of heaw draught are attacked at a point fifteen or iwemy ieet oeiow tne surface, while light draught cruisers and monitors are miacKeu nigner up. Une of the parts of the immersion chamber of the new Whitehead is the depth index, by means of which the depth at which the torpedo runs is fixed by the turn of a wrench. So finely is the torpedo made, its weight in wdici dui a lew grams from a uui puuuu, uiai its immersion is a simple matter. W hen the officer in charce nf tli tr.r. pedo learns the depth at which it is to run ne nas one ot the meq of the squad Declaration of Paris. Atlanta Constitution. Within the past few days frequent al lusion has been made to the declaration of Paris. On account of vital importance which attaches to this instrument at the oresent time some attention should be given V) what it sets forth. On April 16, 1856, accredited represen- tatives.of the leading countries of Europe and America, excepting Spain, Mexici and the United States, met in Paris and formulated the following agreement, which has since been known at the decla ration of Paris: 1. Privateering is and remains abol ished. 2. The neutral nag covers enemy s goods wiih the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, except contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag. 4. Blockades in order to be binding must be effective. One reason why the United States re fused to- subscribe to this agreement was that she did not consider her naval strength at that time sufficient to protect her commerce without the aid of priva teer. But since formally declaring war againt Spain the United States has agreed to submit herself rigidly to the rules enun ciated in the declaration of Paris and to carry out its spirit as though she had been one ot the original signers of that instrument. Spain, on the contrary, has agreed to submit herself only to the last three rules enunciated in the declaration of Paris but since she repudiates the first rule of that instrument she violates its whole spirit and might as well repudiate the last three rules also. Most of our readers know what priva teers are, but in order to dispose ot any misapprehensions which may exist regard to the subject, we take this occa sion to say in conclusion , that privateers are armed vessels fitted up by private in dividuals in time of war to attack and seize vessels engagaged in transporting the enem) 's goods. Originally, priyateers were not required to. bear commissions from the government under which the served, but privateers at tho preresent time which are not provided with com missions are treated as pirates. Such has been the rule for the past seventy-five years or more, but the occasion for en forcing it has seldom presented iteelf. since privateering has become well nigh obsolete. A TIIRILL.IXCI FIUIIT. Richard Hardiujc Davis De scribes The Bombardment or Matanzas Just as lie Saw It. From the lxadon.Times' Correspondent. On Board the Flagship New York, off Matanzas, April aS, (via Key West, Fla., April a3.) The.bombardment of Matan zas, the first important hostile act of the war, took place Wednesday. The first shot was fired from the eight- inch gun amidships on the port side of the New York. This gun is Hnder Cadet Boone. The harbor of Matanzas is protected from the sea by a long, low, strip of land. On this point a battery has been placed, and for the last few days the offi cers of the Puritan and Cincinnati have observed men working on the ramparts and placing the guns in position. This fact was reported to the admiral, and the bombardment of Wednesdaay was to clear away this fort. When the call came to general quar ters the flagship was 4,000 yards off the shore. The ruritan was about 1,000 yards further out, on the New York's port side, and the Cincinnati lay" still another thousand yards out, moving slowly to the starboard of the flagship Admiral Sampson and Captain Chad- wick were on the forward bridge of the New York throughout the bombard ment. GUNNERS MISSED AT FIRST. The bull's-eye at which the first gun wis trained was a rampart ot yellow earth about 200 yards long. With a glass it was possible to see groups of men mov ing about upon.it. The first shot fell about a hundred yards to the right of this bank and the bushes where it struck were thrown up into the air in a cloud of yellow sand. The second shot came from one of the eight-inch guns in the New York's for ward turret, which is uader command of Lieut. Frank Marble. It fell at the ex treme edge of the poiut of land, two hundred yards to the left of the fort, but the sister gun followed it like a rever beration and struck the fort fair in the centre with a projectile, five feet long and weighing two hundred and fifty pounds. A SCENE OF DESTRUCTION. The earthworks rose in the air like geyser of muddy water, and the work of many men for three days was demolish ed as completely and suddenly as if an earthquake had swallowed it up. How many of those men were demolished with the earthworks or what euns were dismantled it was impossible to see. Simultaneously with this third shot batterv in a fort on the further side of the harbor opened on the warships, and all parts of the New York returned the fire. It was almost impsssible to keep count of them. The smoke as it drifted back over the ship's superstructure and between decks made it dithcult to see which of the shots had reached the shore. THE FALLS OF THE YAOKIX. NOT AN AMERICAN HURT. Not more than five or six shots from the forts came near the flagship. One shell fell about a hundred yards from the stern. Another fell short by a hun dred yards,' and a shrapnel broke almost overhead. There was no"-casualties among the Americans. The fact that the ships had stripped for action, and that every unnecessary piece of iron work and wood work had been removed accounted for the little damage by the concussion of their great guns. The Puritan and Cincinnati also shot well. SPLENDID DISCIPLINE. This was the first time one of our great est warships had gone into action, and it was interesting to note the perfectness of discipline that obtained. Officers gave their orders in voices hardly raised above that of every day. The men laughed when the shots struck home, but there was no cheering, nor any greater show of excitement than at practice. At the same time the deck of the su perstructure heaved. Where your corres pondent stood, on the forward bridge, back of the turret, the concussion of her guns made the ear drums tingle. The' smoke filled the mouths and nostrils of the officers, and dimmed their eyes, so that it was for a second at a time impos sible to see or speak. . Richard Harding Davis. They Will Be liarnessea to rnr- uish Electrical Power to North Carolina Mills Northern Cap italists Interested Salisbury Correspondence Charlotte Obser ver, April 28. It seems certain that the magnificent water power at the falls of the Yadkin, in Stanly county is to be harnessed, and that this section of the State, from Char lotte to Greensboro, is to have its elec tricity generated by a plant, which, with the exception of Niagra Falls, will be the greatest cf the kind in America- This is gnat news for Salisbury, Albermarle, Lexington, Concord, New London, Char lotte aud all the towns in this section. There can hardly be a doubt that the plant will be built, and thaK the- eiafctric current will thrill this section. Four months ago the plan of utilizing this water-power, next to that at Niagra, the most wonderful on the Atlantic sea board was conceived by men who are worth millions. It happened in this wise: Mr. Arendell, of Raleigh, in the course of a conversation witn a XHormern capi talist on a railway train, mentioned, and described enthusiastically, the magnifi cent water-power of the Yadkin and its wonderful possibilities, if utilized. The gentleman, who was interested in elec tric plants of this description, returned to his home in Scranton, Pa., anl spoke to other capitalists there ot the falls of the Yadkin. Soon Mr. Arendell was summoned to Scranton, and further in terested its wealthy men in the project. Matters took definite shape, when a com mittee of the Scranton -syndicate was sent to Yadkin and Montgomery counties to inspect the famed water-power. An other committee was sent, and, like the first, returned to Pennsylvania, singing the praises of the Yadkin's water-power. Electrical engineers were sent to the site proposed, and announced it, next to Ni agra, the finest on the Atlantic seaboard and one of the best in the world. This afternoon Mr. F. B. Arendell, of Raleigh, formerly of Salisbury, who is jnterested in the project, was seen here by vour correspondent. He was en route home from Stanley, where he has been on business connected with the de velopment of the power. He stated to vnnr correspondent that the capital of the company which i3 to harness the Yadkin will be in the neighborhood of 1,000.000. He says that the corporation papers have not yet been filed, but have been made out and signed, and will be filrd verv soon. The company will be incorporated under the laws of North Carolina, with a canital 6tock as stated above. Mr. Arendell U acquainted with the members of the syndicate, and says that their combined wealth runs up into the many millions. He is Dot at liberty to say more thai that they are prominent busi ness meu and capitalists of Scranton, Pa. He thinks that there is no question as to the building of a mammoth plant. Work on it will begin, he says, as soon as the deeds are passed upon and other prelimi naries are arranged. Mr. Arendell says that the plant to be erected will be able to supply the immediate needs of all the towns in the section named above. Part of the purchase of the Yadkin falls site from its present owners has already been consummated, and the deal will be en tirely finished soon. The above news is of the greatest importance and marks an epoch in this section's industrial history. The power plant will furnish power to the people of this section, enabling thein to run by electricity anything from a fan to a street car. The site of the great electricity gen erating plant is to be on the falls of the Yadkin twenty-six miles from Salisbury. At this point, in Stanly and Montgomery, the river, which is 1,200 to 1,500 feet in width above, narrows down to a width of between fifty and seventy-five feet. The water is deep and swift, and the channel narrow for several miles, and the power when utilized will be sufficient to run every street car in New York city, with Dower left io stow away. In a word, it is unlimited, and wonders in this section may be expected from its utilization. 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